Yesterday I finally watched “The 11th Hour”. Despite the fact that hot Leo DiCaprio shows his lovely face throughout the movie, I, for some reason, never had gotten around to watch the film.

Like “An Inconvenient Truth”, the film had strong and weak points. On the bad side, it was 30 minutes too long; it featured too many “shock” images intended to scare or sadden viewers; and we didn’t see enough of Leo.

On the bright side, the message had a refreshing scientific angle: human are one of nature’s species; it’s not a question of good will to preserve our natural ecosystem, it’s simply being a smart animal. If we destroy what permits us to live, we’ll die. Duh.

And as in Al Gore’s movie, a plethora of scientists (or not) shared knowledge and advices. Some were using an impenetrable scientific jargon, some were too new-agy for me, and some were so smart that I felt compelled to say “yes, exactly” after each of their sentence. Which pissed off my husband after awhile.

One of those smart ones was David Suzuki, a genetist and environmentalist who spends his life making sustainability understandable to the rest of us. He succeeds pretty well. His website, which I strongly recommend to check out, lists the incredible amount of things we can (and need to) do to survive. The list is really, really long, which is depressing. But his recommendations are easy to follow, realistic, and they don’t make you feel like a criminal for doing what you’re doing right now.

So today I’ll populate my “what’s left to do” page with his advice; even though it will add more lines that I care to see there, I will patiently write them down — and check them off.

I made you a promise, didn’t I?